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Ewart Adamson (writer)
Sinclair Gluck (novel)
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18 February 1936 (USA) more
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A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Ray Walker | ... | Jim Landis | |
| Berton Churchill | ... | Paul Bernard | |
| Irene Ware | ... | Elsa Carson | |
| Hobart Bosworth | ... | Charles Carson | |
| Hedda Hopper | ... | Mrs. Tallman | |
| E.E. Clive | ... | Foot, the Butler | |
| Harold Goodwin | ... | Peter Blake | |
| William V. Mong | ... | Henry Carson | |
| Michael Mark | ... | Arthur Bell (as Michael Marks) | |
| John St. Polis | ... | Dr. Munro | |
| Miki Morita | ... | Choong | |
| Aggie Herring | ... | Mrs. Dubbin, the Cook |
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64 min
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Chesterfield does it again--a tidy whodunit that, surprisingly, holds up pretty well despite its age. The race between the two detectives is quite droll and interesting; it shows, once again, that the fundamental lesson of integration between the old and the new still applies--regardless of decade and/or century. Of course, as the film was lensed nearly 70 years ago, some of the technical aspects of the plot do not age well. And, unless I missed something, I would have preferred a little more detail into the motive for the crime. Despite these minor quibbles, it was a relatively enjoyable 71 minutes, especially when Hedda Hopper was chewing up the scenery.l